Forrester eCommerce

MAY 6, 2024

Read Principal Analyst Emily Pfeiffer's insights on the shifts in the B2C Commerce market over the past two years.

B2C 435

B2C Marketing Consumer Management 435

Forrester eCommerce

MAY 11, 2022

Today, we have fresh data from Forrester’s Q2 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey, 2022 — a cross-industry survey among 153 US B2C marketing executives, VP and above, at brands with at least 500 employees.

B2C 341

B2C Marketing Customer Experience Customer 341

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2025

To begin to address the issue holistically, retailers must aim to ensure that the right products are being targeted to their customers and that products meet their expectations before they even hit the checkout button. Retailers can combat this by providing customers with focused insights during the decision-making process.

Retail 298

Retail BigCommerce B2C Channel 298

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Two types of technological change are causing the proverbial sleepless nights for business-to-consumer (B2C) marketers: updating data strategies to adapt to data deprecation, and introducing or enhancing their organization’s AI capabilities.

B2C 263

B2C Marketing Technology Customer Data 263

Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 12, 2024

Google unveiled Meridian, an open-source marketing mix modeling (MMM) tool aimed at tackling crucial measurement challenges. MMM gauges the impact of marketing and media investments on vital performance indicators like sales or revenue, while also forecasting the revenue potential of marketing endeavors.

Marketing 417

Marketing B2C Customer 417

Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The current relationship status between marketing and security and risk (S&R) pros is best described as “it’s complicated.” This may seem cheeky and slightly exaggerated, until you learn that a whopping 78% of B2C marketing leaders say that they don’t know anyone on their security, risk, and compliance team.

B2C 421

B2C Marketing Management Customer 421

Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 26, 2022

Marketers — and especially martech vendors — talk a lot about customer journeys and experiences, but they usually mean just the purchase journey as opposed to the entire customer lifecycle. As my colleague Joana de […].

Customer 368

Customer Marketing B2C 368

Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 5, 2021

This just in: Forrester asked 150 US B2C marketing executives (across industries) how challenging the various 2022 priorities will be to achieve. Proving the value of marketing. Seventy-one percent of B2C marketing execs indicated that demonstrating the value of marketing to the CEO, CFO, and the board will […].

B2C 482

B2C Marketing Customer 482

Forrester eCommerce

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It’s time for B2B marketers to close the gaps in their customers’ digital experiences with the assistance of automated conversations created by chatbots and virtual assistants (VAs). These solutions are already popular in B2C and B2B markets, creating experiences that: Meet modern buyers’ expectations of immediacy.

B2B 511

B2B B2C Marketing Customer 511

Forrester eCommerce

MAY 8, 2023

CEOs believe their companies are more focused on customers than their CMOs believe. According to Forrester’s 2023 State Of Customer Obsession Survey, 90% of CEOs indicate their focus on customers guides their brand, product, and pricing strategies – while only 57% of B2C CMOs feel the same.

B2C 368

B2C Customer Marketing 368

Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 6, 2022

“Over half of CMOs will make employee experience (EX) essential to brand planning” – Forrester’s Predictions 2022: B2C Marketing And Innovation A New Frontier Emerges I spent most of the winter months hounding a panel of brand experts for their insights as I wrote Forrester’s annual brand spotlight report (to be published later this (..)

Marketing 368

Marketing B2C Customer 368

Forrester eCommerce

JULY 22, 2024

After repeated delays in a four-year-long saga, marketers and advertisers grew increasingly skeptical. In Forrester’s Marketing Survey 2024, 61% of B2C marketers said they do not believe that Google will deprecate the third-party cookie. It’s not […]

B2C 468

B2C Marketing Customer 468

Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Forrester’s Q4 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey, 2024 provided a list of 17 initiatives and we asked respondents (127 US B2C marketing executives) to select up to three. With budgets set for 2025, CMOs are about to enter the new year with several critical initiatives. What’s bubbling to the top?

B2C 221

B2C Marketing Customer 221

Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 27, 2022

For B2C marketers, first-party data is a lot like “Zoolander’s” Hansel: “so hot right now.” Facing massive headwinds amid data deprecation, marketers want to capture zero- and first-party data from customers and build direct relationships.

B2C 369

B2C Marketing Customer Customer Experience 369

Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 6, 2024

Source: GIPHY “What would you say… your marketing operations function does here?” If you can’t quickly and easily answer that question, you need a formal marketing operations charter STAT!

Operations 259

Operations B2C Marketing Customer 259

Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

As champions of the customer, CMOs are pulled in all sorts of directions. We provided a list of 30 items in Forrester’s Q4 2023 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey from which 171 US marketing […] Knowing that they can’t go it alone, we asked what areas they foresee needing the most external help with in 2024.

B2C 243

B2C Marketing Customer 243

Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 26, 2024

To meet customers in their moments, marketers must design, execute, and optimize interactions across the full range of devices, channels, and touchpoints where consumers engage with a brand. Meanwhile, the marketing landscape continues to evolve with new technologies, data deprecation, and sophisticated consumers.

Technology 468

Technology Marketing Channel Consumer 468

Groove

DECEMBER 5, 2024

HubSpot is well-known among business owners, entrepreneurs, and marketing professionals. As an all-in-one solution for inbound marketing, sales, and customer service, it checks a lot of boxes, but you may not recognize the full extent of what it has to offer. In 2010, they published a book called “Inbound Marketing.”

eCommerce 293

eCommerce Marketing B2B Management 293

Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 25, 2023

B2C marketing CMOs will need to navigate AI and prioritize the practical amid a tense political atmosphere. Get an overview of our B2C marketing predictions for 2024.

B2C 397

B2C Marketing Technology Customer 397

Groove

OCTOBER 24, 2024

B2B businesses have to nurture customers through a complex buyer’s journey. Unlike in typical B2C retail, these customers often have multiple decision-makers who need to agree on purchases. This carefully designed software will help enhance the customer experience by improving personalization and driving growth.

eCommerce Software 306

eCommerce Software B2B eCommerce eCommerce Platforms 306

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

While a lot of AI use cases exist today both in the back end and in customer-facing applications there are still many companies that are waiting to achieve ROI on their AI investments. How are retailers in the B2B and B2C space preparing for supply chain disruptions caused by potential tariffs in 2025? administration.

Supplies 289

Supplies Shipping Costs B2C Channel 289

Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

I’m pleased to announce the publication of The Customer Data Platforms In Asia Pacific Landscape, Q1 2024 report. This comprehensive report features 22 vendors with $5 million or more annual CDP revenue from the APAC market.

Marketing 459

Marketing Customer Data Customer B2C 459

Groove

JANUARY 19, 2022

Improving customer experience is a focal point for many online businesses. As the demand for frictionless shopping increases and consumer shopping habits constantly change, merchants must optimize their stores to accommodate shoppers at each stage of the eCommerce customer journey. What Is The eCommerce Customer Journey?

eCommerce 349

eCommerce Customer Merchant Services Payment Services 349

Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 14, 2020

A few weeks ago, I teamed up with some treasured colleagues to discuss the marketing technology landscape in a conversational webinar: Steve Casey, who joins me in covering B2B marketing technology, and our compatriots Joe Stanhope and Rusty Warner who cover B2C marketing technology, engaged in a spirited (‘cause we don’t always agree) conversation (..)

B2B 453

B2B B2C Webinar Technology 453

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2024

A look at the mindset of the online shopper relative to customer service should remind every retailer that they are only as good as their current interaction. Online shoppers focus on current needs, as only 12% consider prior interactions with customer service reps important when using online customer service.

Customer 285

Customer Live Chat Social Media eCommerce 285

Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Understanding consumer behavior is the underpinning of effective B2C marketing strategies. Simply put, they champion their customers every step of the way. Some of the best CMOs aren’t only culture-reflectors but culture-makers — both in the brand stories they tell and the brand experiences they create.

Consumer 364

Consumer B2C Marketing Customer 364

Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The futures of AI and the green market revolution are intimately linked; whether we want it or not, both will inevitably and radically transform societies and economies and become invisibly embedded into our daily lives.

Marketing 474

Marketing Customer Experience B2C Customer 474

Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Incrementality testing is a game-changing measurement approach for marketers. In the ever-evolving marketing landscape, this method holds the key to smarter decision-making, better allocation of resources, and, ultimately, greater ROI.

Marketing 434

Marketing Games B2C Operations 434

Forrester eCommerce

MAY 24, 2022

The flurry of changes in the advertising and marketing ecosystem driven by cookie and ID deprecation, rising walled gardens, and privacy-preserving measures, has B2C marketers scrambling for solutions to help them develop data-driven marketing strategies.

B2C 369

B2C Marketing B2B Technology 369

Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Forrester has published The Forrester Wave™: Customer Data Platforms for B2C, Q3 2024. Given the heavy buyer and vendor interest in customer data platforms it evokes the obvious question “What took you so long?!” For context, consider the history […]

Customer Data 243

Customer Data Games B2C Customer 243

Forrester eCommerce

MAY 8, 2020

To develop guidance in response to this question, Forrester forecast how CMOs would spend over the next two years on media and advertising, marketing technology, marketing […].

Marketing 507

Marketing Technology B2C B2B 507

Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

This holiday season many consumers will be forgoing big family dinners and exotic holiday markets, and instead playing host to unwelcome guests like worry (for their health) and anxiety (for their finances). Marketers can help consumers make the best of their holidays by making their lives a […].

Gifts 435

Gifts Customer Consumer Marketing 435

Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 30, 2024

Buyer expectations for immediacy, relevance, and instant gratification have carried over from B2C to B2B and been amplified with Millennials and GenZ comprising more than half of the modern workforce.

B2B 448

B2B B2C Consumer Marketing 448

Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 9, 2025

Because most sales are generated through intermediaries, Nationwide has employed marketing mix modeling (MMM) to measure marketing performance for nearly a decade. One of the largest insurance and financial services providers in the US, Nationwide offers a diverse portfolio of products and services to both consumers and businesses.

Marketing 195

Marketing Financial Services Consumer B2C 195

Groove

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Expect to learn why B2B eCommerce is growing twice as fast as B2C, how BigCommerce is democratizing enterprise-level tools for manufacturers and distributors, and the surprising impact of automation on operational efficiency. Ethan is an industry expert in eCommerce, e-marketing, and the dynamic technologies behind them.

BigCommerce 369

BigCommerce B2B eCommerce B2C 369

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2024

Whether you are a business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C) company, connecting with your customers beyond your store and/or website is an invaluable opportunity for creating one-to-one engagement and bringing your brand to life. To enter new markets: Make a competitive statement and showcase new products.

Marketing 276

Marketing Events Arts B2B 276

Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 30, 2023

Marketing analytics is the practice of measuring, managing, and analyzing data from marketing initiatives — including channels, programs, campaigns, and tactics — to improve marketing effectiveness and identify opportunities to optimize short- and long-term objectives.

Marketing 351

Marketing Channel Improvements Management 351